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TIL the oldest restaurant in the world is Restaurante Sobrino de Botín in Madrid, which opened in 1725 and is still open for business.

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d8d1E TIL in 2020, California experienced its first "gigafire" (a fire that burns more than a million acres) in modern history. The August Complex fire burned an area larger than the state of Rhode Island.
R5xBw TIL Puerto Rico (a U.S. territory) competes in the Olympics under their own flag.
OGEb7 TIL that The Apollo 11 astronauts couldn’t get life insurance before their mission, so they came up with a brilliant hack: they signed hundreds of autographs. These "insurance autographs" were given to their families, who could sell them if the mission ended in tragedy.
6NbJ TIL that when the Pyramids at Giza were being built, there were still isolated populations of mammoths alive in Siberia.
GYm8N TIL that the Philippines' actual independence was also July 4, but in 1962 it was changed to June 12, likely to spite the US.